29/XI 1921

Comrade Preobrazhenskii! Here is the paper I spoke to you about over the telephone. Please return it with 2 words of comment. By the way, is it possible to take Mushketov into the collegium membership, if he has been working in Petrograd since 1918, transferring him from Peter to Moscow?

Lenin.

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**FOOTNOTES:**

1 The reference is to a memorandum from the higher educational institutions of Petrograd, in which the professoriat complained about the difficult financial situation of the universities and technical institutes, about the interference of local authorities in the internal affairs of the schools, about political screening of students, and about the new regulations on higher educational institutions, according to which representatives of the administration were excluded from participation in the governance of higher education. The memorandum also outlined measures for the preservation and development of the schools, namely: strengthening the financial situation, ensuring professoriat participation in the governance of higher educational institutions, and transferring the latter from the Commissariat of Enlightenment to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Council of the National Economy [VSNKh].

2 D. I. Mushketov — Rector of the Mining Institute in Petrograd.

*The note was written by Lenin at the top of the memorandum from the universities of Petrograd. [Ed.]